There's nothing illegal about being by far the largest e-book publisher. There is something illegal about conspiring with the majority of an industry to collude in price fixing. Also, I'm amazed at the gall of being upset that an illegal conspiracy against customers is actually leading to said customers being compensated.

Really? That is what apple said? The publishers were unhappy with Amazon discounting the books for a while but were unable to do anything individually. Apple came around and said we can work on this with you. The 5 publishers all got on-board and then gave amazon an ultimatum. change your model to agency or be excluded from the market.

Apple also said this:'We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30 percent, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway.'"

See the part where Jobs acknowledged the customer (thats you and me) pays more?Is that how competition should work?

Actually apple came in and offered a way to break the amazon monopoly.

Apple Didn't offer DRM free ebooks at lower prices than Amazon...you know compete. Apple formed a price fixing cartel with publishers which is bad for consumers, and removing the ability to compete with Apple(Even if you are not buying Apple products)...the reason why Monopolises are bad.